subject: HIV Dating Site Offers Free Membership To Persons On Disability [print this page] As part of their mission to make love and companionship available to all, without the fear of disclosure or judgement, one of the most popular HIV Dating sites (based on Google rankings), www.hivandsingle.com, has announced that they will now offer 100% free premium memberships to US Residents on disability.
HIV and Single is free to join, post a profile, send a flirt and view other members profiles. Like most dating sites, when a member wishes to contact other members, they are required to upgrade to a premium membership, which can be had for $4.99 per month (17 cents a day). They also offer a deep discount for a 3, 6 or 12 month memberships. However, effective immediately, if a member is on disability, the premium membership is free.
Compared to three other popular HIV Dating sites, HIV and Single costs significantly less for a premium membership and is the only site to offer a free premium membership to people on disability. Positivesdating.com only offers a one-year membership for $59.95, positivesingles.com charges $29.95 per month, and pozmatch.com charges $14.95 per month.
HIV and Single has been on the web for seven years and they boast that they are the highest quality HIV dating site online and offer a site that is free of spam and fake profiles - a problem that's prevelant with many dating site's.
Co-owner, Matt Beram states, "Unlike many other dating sites, when a member recieves an email on our site, they can be assured it's from a real, genuine person that has read their profile and wants to meet them. It's not some strange girl trying to lead you to a webcam or porn site, and it's not someone informing you of a million dollars waiting for you in a bank account".
HIV and Single used to be a 100% free dating site, but they could find no way to stop the spam problems and got many complaints from the members. Beram and partner Elisa Forni decided that $4.99 was inexpensive enough for most people to afford, but enough to keep the spammers from paying to contact members.
The other thing you will not find on HIV and Single is profile sharing. Because of the popularity of online dating, dating site networks have sprouted up that offer owners of different dating sites to share profiles with each other, thus appearing to make their member base look bigger.
Forni says, "The problem with this, is that these shared profiles are not of people living with HIV, so not only are you not meeting other positive singles, your privacy about your HIV status is being comprised. If you've written something about your HIV in your profile, it's now being shown to people without HIV."
Beram adds, "We do not and never will share profiles, which is what most dating sites do, especially the free ones. All of our members are original and unique. They come organically from our marketing efforts. They find us from Google, Yahoo, or links from other sites."
"There are many good free HIV dating sites with lots of great features, " Beram says, "however, any free dating site is going to be a breeding ground for spam and fake profiles. This is why people pay sites like Eharmony or Match, because when they get an email from someone they know it's real, they know it's someone that has read their profile and is interested. It's not some scammer, copying and pasting the same email over and over again to hundreds of members."
Beram and Forni are both pleased with the new program to offer free premium memberships to persons on disability. They say that many people will now be able to access all the features of the site for free, but unlike other free HIV dating sites, they will not have to deal with profile sharing, spam and fake profiles.
HIV and Single currently has around 7000 active members is growing rapidly. According to Google Analytics, they get 6000 unique visitors a month, which means 6000 people a month who have never been to the site before.
HIV Dating Site Offers Free Membership To Persons On Disability
